Comfort Ahenkorah started her PhD in Linguistics at Yale in 2020. Her research interest focuses on morpho-syntax and its interface with semantics. Before her time at Yale, she obtained her Bachelor’s in Linguistics from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where she focused on the morphology of number marking in Akan, analyzing it from competition and non-competition perspectives within the Distributed Morphology framework.
At Yale, her research has expanded to encompass the semantics of number marking by exploring how various morphological complexities associated with number marking in the nominal and verbal domains (particularly in languages such as Akan) correspond to different semantic contents. Her primary research languages are Akan (Kwa-Niger Congo) and English.
Research Languages: Akan and English